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Real-Time Work-in-Progress Figures — Construction’s Secret Weapon

ProcurementExpress.com

Work in progress figures might not sound like something you need to think much about. Real-time work-in-progress figures, or WIP, allow teams to become more efficient, effective, and remain in control. This means that contractors have not billed for completed work. Slow Work in Progress Figures Just Don’t Work.

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Real-Time Work-in-Progress Figures — Construction’s Secret Weapon

ProcurementExpress.com

Work in progress figures might not sound like something you need to think much about. Real-time work-in-progress figures, or WIP, allow teams to become more efficient, effective, and remain in control. This means that contractors have not billed for completed work. Slow Work in Progress Figures Just Don’t Work.

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Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders.

Job Order Contracting

Lean Construction – Overcoming decades of mistrust, lack of communication, and opposition between facilities owners, designers, engineers, and builders… possible? Design-Bid-Build. Traditional design-bid-build (DBB) delivery process with design, bidding, and construction in separate, sequential steps.

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How The Cloud Is Enabling Smarter Project Management—Part 4 of 5

Viewpoint Construction Technology

While having the best people in place, working together well and using the latest tools is critical, the construction project can still suffer if the data being tracked and reviewed is days or even weeks old. That outdated project information can make it hard to accurately gauge current job costs or work in progress.

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Construction Business Owner Blogs

Construction Business Owner

Meet with them before every project to discuss not only the contractual provisions for scope of work and change orders, but also what you bid and why. Owners need your help to meet their goals, and they may be more amenable to approving change orders while you’re still on the job. change orders.

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Job Order Contracting – Recommended Best Practices

Job Order Contracting

ALL Contractor proposals/estimates should be reviewed in detail, on a line item basis, by the owner and/or an owner’s designated representative. Require that any Scope of Work has sufficient detail to enable a contractor to create a detailed line item estimate. A joint site visit should be done for every project.

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Top 10 ERP Solutions for Construction Firms

Construction Marketing

Acumatica Construction Edition keeps your team on the same page, relying on a core system that has the latest project reports, contracts, budgets, plans, specifications, change orders, invoices, purchase orders and job costs. Oracle ERP.

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